Biden launches 2024 presidential campaign

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: President Biden takes on “MAGA extremists” in his 2024 announcement video. Also, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is aiming for a vote on the debt ceiling bill this week. Plus, the trial starts in the civil rape case against Donald Trump. And Trump allies reportedly considered using stolen voting data to try to decertify the 2021 Georgia Senate runoff. Rep. James Clyburn, David Plouffe, Gene Sperling, Jane Manning, Faith Gay and Andrew Weissmann join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0	Let's finish the job.
0:01.3	Today Joe Biden ended the speculation.
0:03.8	Yes, he's running for reelection.
0:06.1	For the same reasons he ran against Donald Trump in 2020
0:08.8	because Republican extremists are still threatening
0:11.8	American democracy.
0:13.8	That's been the work of my first turn to fight for our democracy.
0:17.7	This shouldn't be a red revolution.
0:21.3	To protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country
0:24.0	is treated equally and that everyone is given a fair shot
0:26.8	at making it.
0:30.0	But you know, around the country,
0:31.2	mega extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock
0:34.1	freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire
0:37.7	life while cutting taxes from the very wealthy, dictating
0:40.7	what health care decisions women can make, banning books
0:44.4	and telling people who they can love.
0:46.7	All I'm making is more difficult for you to be able to vote.
0:50.6	Now polls show Donald Trump.
0:51.9	The twice impeached and now indicted former president
0:54.3	remains the front runner for the Republican nomination.
0:57.5	President Biden's announcement video
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